Role: Tom WilsonA nice theoretical physicist with a penchant for banjos who is giving an inspired guest lecture to a class in L.A. The Professor is also striking out with love when his ex-girlfriend/now just friend of a year prevents him from being hit on by another interested young woman at the lecture. Abby the ex gives the Professor a ride to LAX for his trip back home to New York.

Plot: A unique romantic comedy about two unlikely strangers who fall in love amongst an outrageously offbeat group of passengers taking the red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York on Valentines Day. After breaking up with her boyfriend, Jenny shares a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York with a love-damaged group of passengers: a pilot with anger management issues, some oversexed flight attendants, a hip-hop superstar trying to keep it real in coach and a handsome professor who's been unlucky in romance. Along with a tiny dog named Kaz. These strangers buckle up for love's bumpy ride.

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Trivia & Facts:- Budget: $3 mln- Filming took place inside the interior of a fake airplane.- The credits unfold as a series of vintage Valentine’s Day cards.- Soundtracks : "You're the One" Written by Peter Rafelson

I enjoyed the dialogue and one-liners and eavesdropping on the love birds, played by Rachel Blanchard and James D’Arcy, that literally experience an entire relationship from beginning to end during this excursion, both trying to prove or disprove whether love truly exists --- TXT MovieClub

Overnight begs us to believe that the world's most handsome astrophysics professor (James D'Arcy, pouring on the British charm) and a goofy American blonde freshly dumped by her boyfriend (Rachel Blanchard, pouring on the ditsy cuteness) can meet cute and be ready for marriage by the end of their L.A.-to-New York red-eye flight --- Seattle Times

There are many “rules” to making an independent film. Two of which are to keep the cast to a minimum and the number of locations to be even less. In order for a movie like “Overnight” to work your two stars need to have chemistry. Luckily, Rachel Blanchard and James D’arcy have it --- The Examiner